Marco Rubio: Maduro consultants have contacted the United States to reach an agreement

In the two months following the opposition, the member Juan Guaidó will challenge the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, important advisers to the president have asked to meet the United States government, according to the senator Marco Rubio

Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida with a strong influence on US policy in Latin America, said in a phone interview that the Trump government rejected such meetings because it does not trust the Venezuelan authorities.

"There is not a single major figure in the regime who has not been contacted to reach an agreement," Rubio said.

The government of Donald Trump He rejected offers from the Vatican and other nations to mediate between Maduro and Guaidó, arguing that it paid nothing. The American special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, he met several times with the Chancellor of Maduro, Jorge Arreazabut said that their conversations are limited to ensuring that communications remain open and that US personnel, who have finally left the country, are safe.

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Rubio's statements.

The senator said that the current pressures on the Maduro regime – 50 countries led by the United States, have recognized Mr. Guaidó as a legitimate head of government – that this will eventually pay off.

"Incentives for the faithful will begin to decline rapidly," he said. "They can not mobilize and are increasingly isolated."

While expressing his confidence in the final success of the pressure exerted, Rubio acknowledged that Maduro's relatives, especially the military commanders, remained by his side, lest he be in prison if the president fell. Guaidó and other opposition figures badured them that if they deserted, they would not be prosecuted, but they did not believe them.

Earlier, Rubio had said that the kidnapping of Roberto Marrero, head of the office of Venezuela's interim president, "could signal the beginning of efforts to arrest Juan Guaidó".

"The Maduro regime's secret police have arrested the acting chief of staff of interim president Juan Guaidó, which represents a major escalation of the crackdown and could signal the beginning of efforts to arrest Guaidó himself," Rubio wrote via Twitter.

On Thursday around 2 am, Bolivian national intelligence officials broke into the home of the head of the National Assembly's office, Roberto Marrero, and ANP Sergio Vergara's deputy.

With information from Bloomberg